Originally Posted by
TabTraveller
Yeh this seems to be a Northern European obsession. In my experience no one gives a toss entering and exiting in Portugal, Spain and Greece.
Last week exiting Lisbon they were asking many questions and taking an unusual long time processing people, but I noticed a delegation of German and other country border police (with some EU wristbands) hanging around. So perhaps there was some sort of inspection or delegation visiting and they were told to do it by the book.